Batumi or Tbilisi, Which Georgian City Is for You
Batumi or Tbilisi? An honest comparison of Georgia's two big cities, covering food, sea, costs, weather by season and how to do both in one trip.
All our Georgia guides tagged Tbilisi.
Batumi or Tbilisi? An honest comparison of Georgia's two big cities, covering food, sea, costs, weather by season and how to do both in one trip.
A train, a bus, an app taxi and a queue of drivers quoting four times the going rate. Which to take at which hour, and the one arrival that catches people.
Cheap rent, fast internet, an unusually generous stay allowance for many passports, and a city small enough to know within a month.
Almost everything in eastern Georgia is within a day's reach of the capital, so many visitors never change hotel. Some of it should not be done that way.
The complete guide to Tbilisi: the cobbled old town, the sulphur baths of Abanotubani, natural-wine bars, the Fabrika hub, viewpoints and day trips.
Where to stay in Tbilisi: the Old Town versus Sololaki and Vera, why the hill streets are steeper than they look, and how to pick the right base.
A derelict textile plant across the river, now a hostel, a courtyard, a dozen small businesses and the place the young half of the city arranges to meet.
Brick domes rising out of a hillside above hot sulfur springs, private rooms by the hour, and a scrub that removes a layer of you.
A capital where a natural wine bar, a Soviet factory courtyard and one of the most serious techno clubs in Europe are within twenty minutes of each other.